We are their sons, our heritage is royal, and we shall conquer in the Holy
Name.

Commentary

Confronted by blatant
anti-Catholicism and by Modernists, who were trying to infect the Holy Catholic Church in
the United States with secular and Americanist ideals, Archbishop William Cardinal
OConnell (1859  1944) stood as a defender of the  faith, forever
the same. Believing in his statement that, We turn Romeward as naturally as
the needle seeks the North, he espoused a militant vision of Catholicism to combat
the evil ideas of his age. All oer the land rebellions flag is flying,
threatning our altars and the Nations life. It was in this spirit that
he composed the hymn, O Holy Name.

Because
of the Holy Name Societys mission, it was natural for the Cardinal to write a hymn
that the Confraternitys members could sing with great enthusiasm. Fierce is
the fight for God and the Right; Sweet Name of Jesus, in Thee is our might. In the
cosmic battle between the forces of morality and faith against the advocates of secularism
and materialism, His Eminence called upon the faithful to be prepared for storm and
trial and to assert themselves with manly firmness in defending the One
True Faith.